I mean the point of my making this post wasn't to demand a superstar really I'm just saying you can't really predict what mold your best player is going to fit into and just because you might personally prefer certain archetypes over others that doesn't mean the team has to go for those types of players
Alpi is a defenseless blackhole and three trick pony on offense (Jim Peterson on steroids whirling around frantically to score, Larry Bird passes, or nothing (without an at least..... somewhat threatening 3....... at this juncture). Cam, can ball, agree....... Potential superstar once a two way player consistently............. Yet, I still see a team where Amen, Jabari, and Eason are role players, but really above average role players and give our team identity. STILL............ I believe Green/ Segun are huge wildcards at this time that you either trade, or keep. Regardless, you don't break the bank on either of them at this time, unless they show massive improvements this year (team wise maybe even more than individually)...... Having that third pick helps......star, compliment, glue/ leverage/ asset.....who knows?....a year one wild card at least...... Still rebuilding.......... time I agree......
I know Jalen is the poster boy for the read between the lines efficiency talk but I gotta say the problem is really with our floor as a poor 3pt shooting team. Amen and Sengun have to be held accountable for that because teams at least come out to guard Jalen - the sub 30% guys are the ones that allow defenses to play within a much tighter space without consequences and we have TWO guys getting starters minutes haven't cracked that and we really can only have one on a court at any given time. Fun fact - Fred VanVleet and Aaron Holiday are the only guys in the rotation hitting above league average on 3p shooting. To some extent, this is probably not entirely unexpected given our youth as a team but I don't think it's unreasonable to say Jalen can be a league average shooter before he is 25....but again - his inefficiency isn't why teams are able to crowd spacing in the paint and are able to recover easier when we get them in their rotations.
The formula for a championship team traditionally has been pretty much the same for 30+ years, with a few special exceptions like the '04 Pistons, our '94 Hakeem-led Rockets, etc., and some deviation a bit of course. An MVP-caliber player superstar A second all-star caliber talent or borderline A third star or borderline all-star talent Top 5-10 offense Top 5-10 defense We need the MVP caliber or lead superstar player and then you can build around it as the easiest route, or really strong collection of stars on offense and defense can get it done too, but it's very rare.
